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Managed Care

Pediatrics, 1992
To the Editor.— At a time when many of us are trying to understand and evaluate the effects of the influence of managed care on medical practice, it was with significant dismay that I read the unscientific, anecdotal, and frankly inflammatory report that formed the second article in the February 1992 issue of Pediatrics.1 ...
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ETHICS IN MANAGED CARE

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2000
The current era of managed costs and care create ethical dilemmas based on economic constraints and incorporation of principles of distributive justice. Traditional ethical concerns related to confidentiality, conflicts of interest, double agentry, and honesty are complicated by interference in the doctor-patient relationship caused by intrusive ...
J A, Lazarus, S S, Sharfstein
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Changing Managed Care to Care Management

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2002
This article describes ways to develop a Case Management System that includes the principles of care planning by using an interdisciplinary team across the continuum of health services.
Bonnie E, Hillegass, Diane M, Smith, Steven L, Phillips   +2 more
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Managing costs and managing care

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2001
With a defined population served, contracted provider panels and the nature of care delivery integration, managed care has provided a solution, though not a panacea, to provide equitable services, standardized and prevention oriented cares to its enrolled members.
P A, Rivers, K L, Tsai
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Care Management: The Right Balance of Care and Management?

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 1998
In 1990, nursing leadership at St. Peter's Medical Center, realizing a need to be creative in order to meet the cost and quality demands of the ever-changing health care system, developed a case management system model called Care Management. The qualifications for the role and the orientation of the Care Managers is describes changes in the program ...
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Managed Care or Mangled Care?

New England Journal of Medicine, 1993
To the Editor: The Clinton administration promises to make managed care the cornerstone of our new health policy.
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ETHICS AND MANAGED CARE

Medical Clinics of North America, 1996
Managed care presents physicians with potential ethical dilemmas different from dilemmas in traditional fee-for-service practice. The ethical assumptions of managed care are explored, with special attention to the evolving dual responsibilities of physicians as patient advocates and as entrepreneurs.
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MANAGED CARE AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1997
The era of managed care medicine has brought with it new and interesting legal risks. This article presents the physician with an introduction to managed care and risk management. Medical malpractice, as it involves managed care organizations, is introduced, and several risk management strategies are developed to help the practicing physician.
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Managed Care or Managed Costs?

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
Managed care, sometimes called managed competition, is being advanced as the solution to the problem of soaring health care costs which have plagued the United States for at least the past two decades. Managed care involves a third party reviewer, sometimes called a case manager, to authorise the medical expenditures ordered by physicians. Managed care
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Managed Care and Managed Death

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995
Two STRONG movements have each begun to enlist many enthusiastic adherents throughout the nation: a movement toward managed care as a means of cost control and a movement toward managed death through euthanasia and assisted suicide. Both movements have been controversial.
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